Price tag



Oct. 21, 1930. F- KOHNLE 1,779,241

PRICE TAG Filed Oct. '7, 1929 m W ATTRNEYS Patented Oct. 21, 1930.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FREDERICK KOHNLE, DAYTON,'OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOTHE MONARCH MARKIHG SYSTEM COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OFOHIO PRICE TAG Applidation filed October 7, 1929. Serial No. 397,775.

This invention relates to improvements in price marking tags orlabels'of a type .adhesively applied to the merchandise to be ticketed.Y An object of the invention is to provide a duplex tag or gum .labelhaving the members folded upon one another forming a plural leaf unitwith one of the members or leaves carrying an adhesive-for fixing orsticking the tag to the merchandise.

Another object of the invention is to provide a duplex tag with themembers separable from one another, and one thereof carrying an adhesiveon one-side.

vide a plural leaf gang tag strip having the leaves foldedupon oneanother to give the strip single leaf dimensions.

Another object of the invention is to provide a gang tag strip combiningduplex tags adapted for use in price marking machines.

Other features and advantages of the 111- vention are-more fully setforth in the description of the accompanying drawings 1n which: g

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved tag strip showing avariation of the strip unfolded to display the duplex character of'thetags. Y

Figure 2 is a plan view of a duplex tag, as clasped about an edge sheet,the sheet shown in dot-and-dasl lines. Figure 3 is an end or edge viewofthe same.

unfolded position rated. t

Figure 5 is anedge view of an individual member of the tag unit.

Referring to' the drawings, 1 indicates a tag or strip of paperofappropriate width for determinate sizes of duplex tags. The

with the members sepastrip longitudinally on one side and withinone-half of its width is preferably provided with strips of adhesive 2-2for securing the tag or label to the goods to be ticketed.

The strip is foldedv upon itself along a medial line to. give singulartag width dimens ion to the strip, and provides in gang form, foldedduplex or plural leaf tag 3.

- partially severed from one another by paral- Anotherobject of theinvention is to pro- I .marking, the strip is intermittently movedFigure 4 isa plan view of the duplex tag in along the line of Having. d

Each tag unit is adapted when severed from the strip, to be claspedabout an edge .of a sheet,.as a page or a leaf of a book, as indicatedin Figures 2 and 3, with one member permanently secured by the adhesiveand the second free therefrom to be detached if desired. l I

The duplex tags comprised in the strip are. individually identified infolded strip and CO lel slits or notches 5 cut into the folded striplaterally from either one or both-its longitudinal edges. In thedrawings the slits or notches are shown cut in from both edges.

The slits, aside from partially severing the tag, provides determinatelyspaced shoulders or transverse edges adapted to cooperate with and beengaged by feeding devices of a marking machine for advancing the stripin step motions corresponding to the notch The gangarrangement'facilitates in the manufacture, merchandizing and -machineprlce marking of thetags. In machine or advanced to bring the tags ofthe strip successively into position for printing the price markingdatathereon, and to position a the notches into registry with the severingmechanism of the machine for severing the price marked tags successivelyfrom the strip and issue the'same from the machine.

In the folded form of strip, the tags along -one side of a line of thefold or one row, may

be correspondingly pre-printed as to provide 1 an advertising card forthe user permanently secured to the goods to be ticketed, the undersidethereof containing the strips of adhesive, and the second row used forprice marking service detachable from the first the fold as shown in Figure 4.

The tag strip is susceptible to be fed into the markin machine orutilized in an unfolded condition for simultaneously printing as theprice marking data on both of the duplex tags.

cribed my invention, I claim: An article of manufacture, comprising, a

gang duplex tag strip of a tape folded upon' itself longitudinallyproviding duplex tags at opposite sides on the line of fold, the stripnotched transversely at definite spacing along one or both of thelongitudinal edges thereof, to partially divide the tags, and the tagsat one side of the line of fold having an adhesive on one side.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name.

' FREDERICK KOHNLE;

